Metro Manila Film Fest Sucks
It pisses me off to see all those metro manila film fest pimps in the person of lily monteverde, annabelle rama, and all those schmucks, battle it out full throttle on national television saying that they were cheated one way or another.
Considering that the government has already accorded them some room for expansion in the form of protectionist policies, the least that those idiotic producers could do is to create watchable films. I know that people did watch most of the films that were shown such as Exodus, Enteng Kabisote, and Mulawin. But most of these films merely capitalized on the people's penchant for the fantasy genre. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against fantasy films. In fact, I love them. It's just that copying foreign movies down to every damn detail exhibits an extreme lack of creativity, if not absence. Bottomline: maybe they should start thinking of producing films that don't really limit the industry to filipino audiences. A need for a post-national film industry? Maybe it is time.
Perhaps its just me being in my hyper-capitalist mode. It can't be denied still that a great injustice to all those good filipino films that came out of the working mills of independent and creative producers such as Ilusyon, Masahista, Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, was done. Even Peque Gallaga's work on Pinoy Blonde was good, minus the star-centeredness of the entire flick.
Ilusyon was poetry transformed into film. It was a delightful play of colors, shades and hues. A film that makes you feel the painter's brushstrokes. While the plot was simple, and the protagonist's dilemma shallow, it was delivered in such a way that would tickle the senses of the viewer.
Perhaps Lito Zulueta was actually right that the MMFF should be abolished. It has miserably failed to constantly produce films that would be able to compete in an international level. While MMFF did play host to quality films such as Crying Ladies et al, it has become a breeding ground for a parasitic class of movie producers who love cashing in on the 13th month pay of filipinos, not just in metro manila, but in the entire country.
Instead, an encouragement of a new breed of artists that produce meaningful films (e.g. independent film producers, small production outfits) should be given a bigger role.
Oh well, I'll keep on dreaming... damn, I should have taken film.
Considering that the government has already accorded them some room for expansion in the form of protectionist policies, the least that those idiotic producers could do is to create watchable films. I know that people did watch most of the films that were shown such as Exodus, Enteng Kabisote, and Mulawin. But most of these films merely capitalized on the people's penchant for the fantasy genre. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against fantasy films. In fact, I love them. It's just that copying foreign movies down to every damn detail exhibits an extreme lack of creativity, if not absence. Bottomline: maybe they should start thinking of producing films that don't really limit the industry to filipino audiences. A need for a post-national film industry? Maybe it is time.
Perhaps its just me being in my hyper-capitalist mode. It can't be denied still that a great injustice to all those good filipino films that came out of the working mills of independent and creative producers such as Ilusyon, Masahista, Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, was done. Even Peque Gallaga's work on Pinoy Blonde was good, minus the star-centeredness of the entire flick.
Ilusyon was poetry transformed into film. It was a delightful play of colors, shades and hues. A film that makes you feel the painter's brushstrokes. While the plot was simple, and the protagonist's dilemma shallow, it was delivered in such a way that would tickle the senses of the viewer.
Perhaps Lito Zulueta was actually right that the MMFF should be abolished. It has miserably failed to constantly produce films that would be able to compete in an international level. While MMFF did play host to quality films such as Crying Ladies et al, it has become a breeding ground for a parasitic class of movie producers who love cashing in on the 13th month pay of filipinos, not just in metro manila, but in the entire country.
Instead, an encouragement of a new breed of artists that produce meaningful films (e.g. independent film producers, small production outfits) should be given a bigger role.
Oh well, I'll keep on dreaming... damn, I should have taken film.
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